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March 3, 2024:  Danielle Magaldi, PhD, “Unbecoming:  Social Media and the Fracturing of Adolescent Development”

References

American Psychological Association. (2023, May 9). APA panel issues recommendations for adolescent social media use [Press release]. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2023/05/adolescent-social-media-use-recommendations

Magaldi, D. & Trub, L. (2022). Finding Closeness while Socially Distant: Clinical Considerations for the Therapeutic Frame and Process in Teletherapy. Chapter in Weinberg, H., Rolnick A., & Leighton, A. (eds.) Advances in Online Therapy: Emergence of a new Paradigm. New York: Routledge

Trub, L., & Magaldi, D. (2022). The phone in the room: How technology is reshaping analytic space. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 39(3), 253–265. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000402

Magaldi, D., Appel, R., & Berler, M. (2019). Adolescence and Social Media Use. In S. Hupp & J. Jewell (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development,Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell

Essig, T., Magaldi, D., & Trub, L. (2018). Technology, Intimacy and Simulations of Intimacy. In Salman Ahktar and Gurmeet Kanwal (Eds.), Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital, and Developmental Perspectives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429023217

Trub, L. & Magaldi, D. (2018). Digital Dialectics: Navigating Technology’s Paradoxes in Online Treatment. In H. Weinberg and A. Rolnick (Eds.), Theory and Practice of Online Therapy, Routledge

January 21, 2024: Sarah L. Hedlund, Ph.D., “Psychoanalytic Psychology’s Failure to Mentalize:  Reckoning With the Denigration of the Autistic Community” 

References

Alvarez, A. (1996). Addressing the element of deficit in children with autism: Psychotherapy which is both psychoanalytically and developmentally informed. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1(4), 525-537. doi: 10.1177/1359104596014005

Alvarez, A. (2010). Levels of analytic work and levels of pathology: The work of calibration. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 91(4), 859-878. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2010.00284.x

Alvarez, A., Reid, S., & Hodges, S. (1999). Autism and play: The work of the Tavistock autism workshop. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 15(1), 53-64. doi: 10.1191/026565999673927096

Hobson, R. P. (2011). On the relations between autism and psychoanalytic thought and practice. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 25(3), 229-244. doi: 10.1080/02668734.2011.604205

 Klauber, T., & Rhode, M. (2004). The Many Faces of Asperger's Syndrome. London: Karnac.

Mayes, L. C., & Cohen, D. J. (1994). Experiencing self and others: Contributions from studies of autism to the psychoanalytic theory of social development. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 42(1), 191-218. doi: 10.1177/000306519404200110

 Rhode, M. (2012). Whose memories are they and where do they go? Problems surrounding internalization in children on the autistic spectrum. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 93(2), 355-376. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2011.00507.x

Rhode, M., & Houzel, D. (2005). Invisible Boundaries : Psychosis and Autism in Children and Adolescents. London: Published by Karnac for European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Se.

Sugarman, A. (2011). Psychoanalyzing a Vulcan: The importance of mental organization in treating Asperger's patients. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 31(3), 222-239. doi: 10.1080/07351690.2010.513659

Urwin, C. (2011). Emotional life of autistic spectrum children: What do we want from child psychotherapy treatment? Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 25(3), 245-261. doi: 10.1080/02668734.2011.604921

November 5, 2023: Louis Rothschild, Ph.D., “Exploring Breakdowns and Recoveries In and Between Fathers and Sons: Implications for Treatment”

References

Diamond, M. J. (2021). Masculinity and its discontents: The male psyche and the inherent tensions of maturing manhood. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

Eigen, M. (2012). Distinction–union structure. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 32(3), 246–256.

Herzog, J. M. (2009). Father hunger and narcissistic deformation. Psychiatric Annals, 39(3), 156–163.

Rothschild, L. (2023). Rapprochement between fathers and sons: Breakdowns, reunions, potentialities. Phoenix Publishing House.

Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2002). Fathers in modern psychoanalysis and in society: The role of the father and child development. In J. Trowell & A. Etchegoyen (Eds.),     The importance of fathers: A psychoanalytic re-evaluation (pp. 45–66). Brunner-Routledge.

September 24, 2023: Clark J. Hudak, Jr., Ph.D., “Counter-transference and Impingements on the Containing Function in Working with Trans Patients.”

References

Freud, S. (1925). Some psychical consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes. Standard Edition 19:248-258. London: Hogarth Press, 1961. 

Stoller, R. (1968). Sex and Gender, New York: Science House. 

Saketopoulou, A. and Pelligrini, A. (2023). Gender Without Identity, New York: The Unconscious in Translation. 

Bion, W.R. (1962). Learning From Experience. London: Heine-mann. 

Drescher, Jack. (2015), Gender Policing in the Clinical Setting: Discussion of Sandra Silverman’s “The Colonized Mind: Gender, Trauma, and Mentalization.” Psychoanalytic Dialogue, (25)(1):67-76.

May 21, 2023: J  Unterberg,  Ph.D. and  Aekta Malhotra, M.D., “Personal and Collective Mourning in Transgender/Non-Binary Transitions” 

References

Saketopoulou, A. (2014) Mourning the Body as Bedrock:  Developmental Considerations in Treating Transsexual Patients Analytically.  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 62 (5): 773-806.

Hansbury, G. (2005). Mourning the Loss of the Idealized Self: A Transsexual Passage. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 12(1):19-35.

Ehrensaft, D. (2011). Boys Will Be Girls, Girls Will Be Boys: Children Affect Parents as Parents Affect Children in Gender Nonconformity. Psychoanalytic Psychology,  28:528-548.

Vaughan, S.C. (2018). Suicidality in LAGBTQ + Youth. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 71:40-54.

World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care, Version 8. International Journal of Transgender Health.                                                               https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc

March 26, 2023: Clara E. Hill, Ph. D., “Psychotherapy Skills and Methods:  Empirical Evidence”

References

Hill, C. E., & Norcross, J. C. (in press). Psychotherapy skills and methods that work. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Hill, C. E., & Norcross, J. C. (in press). Psychotherapy skills and methods: Introduction to the special issue. Psychotherapy, 

Hill, C. E., & Norcross, J. C. (in press). Skills and methods that work in psychotherapy: Conclusions to the special issue. Psychotherapy,  

Elliott, R., Bohart, A., Larson, D., Smoliak, O., Muntigl, P. (in press). Empathic reflections. In C. E. Hill & J.C. Norcross (Eds.). Psychotherapy skills and methods that work. Oxford University Press.

Swift, J. K., Penix, E. A., & Li, A. (in press). Role induction. In C. E. Hill & J.C. Norcross (Eds.). Psychotherapy skills and methods that work. Oxford University Press.

Zilcha-Mano, S., Keefe, J. R., Fisher, H., Dolev-Amit, & Barber, J. (in press). Interpretations. In C. E. Hill & J.C. Norcross (Eds.). Psychotherapy skills and methods that work. Oxford University Press.

Spangler, P., & Sim, W. (in press). Dream work and nightmare treatment. In C. E. Hill & J.C. Norcross (Eds.). Psychotherapy skills and methods that work. Oxford University Press.

January 22, 2023: Sandor (Alex) Szollos, Ph.D., “Clinical and Ethical Challenges of Money, the ‘Last Taboo’ in Psychotherapy, Part II”

References

Berger, B & Newman, S. (2012). Money talks. New York: Routledge.

Herron, W. G. & Welt, S. R. (1992). Money matters. New York: Gilford.

Knapp, S.J. & VandeCreek, L.D. (2006). Business Issues. In S. Knapp & L. VandeCreek (Eds.), Practical ethics for psychologists: A positive approach, (147-160). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Krueger, D. W. (Ed.) (1986). The last taboo: Money as symbol and reality in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. New York: Brunner/Mazel.

Löffler-Statska, H. (2013). Clinical reasoning and authentic clinical care: The role of countertransference. International Journal of Behavioral Research and Psychology, 1(3), 1-4.

Trachtman, R. (1999). The money taboo: Its effects in everyday life and in the practice of psychotherapy. Clinical Social Work Journal, 27(3), 275-288.

November 13, 2022: Martha Stark, M.D., “The Art and The Science of Interpretation”

References

Aron, L. (1990). One person and two person psychologies and the method of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology 7(4):475-485. 

Bollas, C. (1979). The transformational object. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 60:97-107. 

Casement, P. (1992). Forms of interactive communication. In Learning from the patient (pp. 64-86). New York, NY: Guilford Press. 

Cooper, A. M. (1985). Chapter 1: A historical review of psychoanalytic paradigms. In A. Rothstein (Ed.) Models of the mind: Their relationships to Clinical Work (pp. 5-20). Madison, CT: International Universities Press. 

Greenberg, J. (1986). Theoretical models and the analyst’s neutrality. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 22:87-106. 

Hirsch, I. (1987). Varying modes of analytic participation. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 15(2):205-222. 

Mitchell, S. (1988). Penelope’s loom: Psychopathology and the analytic process. In Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis (pp. 271-294). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 

Ogden, T. (1982). The concept of projective identification. In Projective identification and psychotherapeutic technique (pp. 11-37). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc. 

Schwaber, E. A. (1981). Narcissism, self psychology, and the listening perspective. Annual of Psychoanalysis 9:115-131. 

Stolorow, R., Atwood, G. E., & Brandchaft, B. (1994). Principles of psychoanalytic exploration. In Psychoanalytic treatment: An intersubjective approach (pp. 1-14). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc. 

Stark, M. (1994). Working with Resistance. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. 

Stark, M. (1999). Modes of Therapeutic Action: Enhancement of Knowledge, Provision of Experience, and Engagement in Relationship. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. 

September 18, 2022: George Strutt, Ph.D., “The Future of Psychoanalysis, Redux: Views from the Past and Present.”

References

Blum, H. (2021, October 22). Changes in psychoanalysis after Freud’s death and into the present. 3rd annual 

Jerome S. Blackman, M.D. lecture. Virginia Psychoanalytic Society. Gabbard, G.O. (2005). Does psychoanalysis have a future? Yes. The Canadian Journal of                      Psychiatry, 50, 741-742. 

Kandel, E.R. (1999). Biology and the future of psychoanalysis: A new intellectual framework for psychiatry revisited. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 505-524. 

Maroda, K.J. (2021). The analyst’s vulnerability: Impact on theory and practice. New York, NY: Routledge. 

McWilliams, N. (2020). The future of psychoanalysis: Preserving Jeremy Safran’s integrative vision. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 37(2), 98-107. 

Plakun, E. M. (July, 2022). A verdict overturned: Are we at our wit’s end. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 28(4), 324-327. 

Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 65, 98-109. 

Solms, M. & Nersession, E. (1999). Freud’s theory of affect: Questions for neuroscience. Neuropsychoanalysis. 1(1), 5-14. 

Weinberger, J. & Stoycheva, V. (2020). The unconscious: Theory, research and clinical implications. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

May 15, 2022: Justine Kalas Reeves, LICSW, D. Psych (England), “The Centrality of Child Psychoanalytic Theory to the Psychoanalytic Corpus as a Whole”

References

Baradon, T. et al. (2016). The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: Claiming the Baby, 2nd Edition. London: Routledge.

Freud, A. (1972). Child-analysis as a sub-specialty of psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Hurry, A. (1998). Psychoanalysis and Developmental Therapy. London: Karnac Books.

Midgley, N. (2013). Reading Anna Freud. London: Routledge.

Novick, J. and Novick, K.K. (2022). Adolescent Casebook. New York: IPBooks.

Novick, J. and Novick, K.K. (2021). Parent Work Casebook. New York: IPBooks.

Novick, J. and Novick, K.K. (2005). Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work. Lanham, MD: Aronson.

Zaphiriou Woods, M. and Pretorius, I. (2011). Parents and Toddlers in Groups: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Approach. London: Routledge.

March 20, 2022: Sharon Alperovitz, LICSW, Teaching Analyst, WBCP, “Treating Couples and Families from a British Object Relations and an American Relational Theories Perspective”

References

Scharff, D.E. & Scharff, J.S. (1991): Object Relations Couple Therapy, Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson

Winer, R. (1994): A Relational View of the Therapeutic Process, Close Encounters. New Jersey & London, Jason Aronson.

Morgan M. (2018): A Couple State of Mind: Psychoanalysis of Couples and the Tavistock Relationships Model, Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, London: Taylor & Francis, LTD

Mitchell, S.A. & Aron L. (1999): Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition. New York: Routledge

Fisher J. (1999): The Uninvited Guest: Emerging from Narcissism Towards Marriage. London: Karnac

Nathans, S. & Schaefer M., Eds: (2017) Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy and the Tavistock Model (Relational Perspectives Book Series). New York: Routledge

Link to “Learning to call the game: Some lessons from infant observation for the couple therapist” by Sharon Alperovitz: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qlZMjvckZOE0TB1jLUWkOUBJfjm6PhUc/view?usp=sharing

Link to “Moments of Loneliness: A Shared Experience of Learning from Impasse in Couple Therapy” by Sharon Alperovitz: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I7yQ1abDHy3gz4yMui-ZamyjdM9y4pEn/view?usp=sharing

February 6, 2022:  Richard M. Waugaman, M. D.,  “What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Psychology”

References

Waugaman, Richard M. "It's time to Re-Vere the Works of Shakespeare: A Psychoanalyst Reads the Works of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford." Oxfreudian Press, 2020

Waugaman, Richard M. "The Psychology of Shakespearean Biography." Brief Chronicles 1:34-48, 2009

Waugaman, Richard M. "Othello and the Green-Eyed Monster of Jealousy." The Oxfordian 19:115-128, 2017

Link to “An unpublished letter by Sigmund Freud on the Shakespeare authorship question” by Richard Waugaman: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QKL9ArunIvsqaNv6fo9SiKX5uSYJpxBq/view?usp=sharing

*All of Dr Waugaman's 100 publications on Shakespeare can be read at his Georgetown Faculty website.

November 14, 2021:  Clara E. Hill, Ph.D., “Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach”

References

Hill, C. E., Gelso, C. J., Gerstenblith, J., Chui, H., Pudasaini, S., Burgard, J., Baumann, E., & Huang, T. (2013). The dreamscape of psychodynamic psychotherapy: Dreams, dreamers, dream work, consequences, and cases. Dreaming, 23, 1-45. doi.org/10.1037/a0032207

Sim, W., Hill, C. E., Duan, C., An, M., Gupta, S., Prass, M. (2021). Working on dreams to facilitate the transition to the United States for Asian international university students’ transition to the United States. Dreaming, 31(2), 100-116.

Hess, S. A., Knox, S., Hill, C. E., Byars, T., & Spangler, P. (2014). Exploring the dreams of hospice workers. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 31, 374-379.    doi:10.1177/1049909113487253

Hill, C. E., Knox, S., Crook-Lyon, R. E., Hess, S. A., Miles, J., Spangler, P., & Pudasaini, S. (2014). Dreaming of you: Client and therapist dreams about each other during                    psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 523-537. doi:10.1080/10503307.2013.867461

Hill, C. E. (2018). Meaning in life: A therapist’s guide. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. 

Hill, C. E. (2020). Helping skills: Facilitating exploration, insight, and action (5th ed). Washington DC: American Psychological Association. 

Hill, C. E. (Ed.) (2004). Dream work in therapy: Facilitating exploration, insight, and action. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.

September 19, 2021:  Fonya Lord Helm, Ph.D., ABPP & Maurine K. Kelly, Ph.K., P.A., “Altered States of Awareness: Telepathic Dreaming”

References

Brottman, M.  (2011).  Phantoms of the Clinic:  From Thought Transference to Projective Identification.  London:  Karnac.

dePeyer, J.  (2016).  Uncanny communication and the porous mind.  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25: 156-174.

Reichbart, R.  (2019).  The Paranormal Surrounds Us:  Psychic Phenomena in Literature, Culture and Psychoanalysis.  Jefferson, NC:  McFarland & Company, Inc.   

March 21, 2021:  Joseph P. Collins, Jr., D.O., “Trauma, Perversity and Sexual Activity:  A Psychoanalytic Perspective”

References

Bass, A. (2018).  Fetishism, psychoanalysis, and philosophy; The iridescent thing.  Routledge.

Basseches, H., Ellman, P., Goodman, N. ((2013),  Battling the life and death forces of sadomasochism: Clinical perspectives. Karnac Books.

Escoffier, J. (2020) Every detail counts: Robert Stoller, perversion and the production of pornography. /Psychoanalytic History 22/(1), 35-52.

January 31, 2021:  Samuel T. Goldberg, M.D., DFAPA, “Perspectives on Tragedy, with a Discussion of Shakespeare’s King Lear”

References

Aragno A. (2014) The Roots of Evil: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Psychoanalytic Review 101(2):249-288.

Goldberg S.T. Macbeth: The Genesis of Tyranny. The American Psychoanalyst, September 2013.

Goldberg S.T. Hamlet and the Ghost. The American Psychoanalyst, Vol.54,No. 1, Winter/Spring 2020.

Hamilton, J. (2012).  The mind according to Shakespeare:  Psychoanalysis in the Bard’s writing.  Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 20(2), 356-358.

Ringstrom, P.A. (2018).  Three dimensional field theory:  Dramatization and improvisation in a psychoanalytic theory of change.  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 28(4), 379-396.

November 8, 2020:  Michael Stadter, Ph.D., “Time, Focus, and Relationship: An Object Relations Perspective on Brief Therapy”

References

Lemma, A., Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2011). Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy. London: Oxford.

Milrod, B., Leon, A. C. Busch, F., et al. (2007). A randomized controlled clinical trial of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for panic disorder. Am J Psychiatry, 164: 265–72.

Norcross, J. C. (Ed.). (2011). Psychotherapy relationships that work: Evidence-based responsiveness (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 65,98-109.

Stadter, M. (1996/2009). Object Relations Brief Therapy: The Therapeutic Relationship in Short-term Work. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.

Stadter, M. (2012). Presence and the Present: Relationship and Time in Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.

Stern, D. N. (2004). The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life. New York: Norton.

September 27, 2020:  Clark J. Hudak, Jr., Ph.D., “Addictive Behaviors and Trauma: Psychoanalytic Considerations”

References

Ellman, P. & Goodman, N. Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain. Routledge: New York NY, 2017.

 Eekhoff, J.K. Trauma and Primitive Mental States. Routledge: New York: NY, 2019.

 Khantzian, E. Treating Addiction: Beyond the Pain. Rowan & Littlefield: Maryland, 2018. 

 Wurmser, L. The Hidden Dimension: Psychodynamics of Compulsive Drug Use. Aronson: NJ, 1978.

March 22, 2020:  Clara E. Hill, Ph.D., “Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy:  An Integrative Approach”

References

Hill, C. E. (Ed.) (2004). /Dream work in therapy: Facilitating exploration, insight, and action/. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.

Hill, C. E. (2019). Benefits of dreamwork in psychotherapy. In K. Valli & R. J. Hoss (Eds.), /Dreams: Understanding biology, psychology, and culture, Vol. 2/ (pp. 461-465). Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood.

Hill, C. E. (2019). The Cognitive-Experiential Dream Model (CEDM). In K. Valli & R. J. Hoss (Eds.), /Dreams: Understanding biology, psychology, and culture, Vol. 2/ (pp. 571-574). Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood.

January 19, 2020:  Gerald P. Perman, M.D., “Jacques Lacan:  An Introduction to His Work with Applications for Your Practice”

References

Bailey, L.  (2009).   Lacan:  A beginner's guide.  Vicoria, Australia: Bolinda Publications.

Fink, B.  (2017).  A clinical introduction to Freud.  New York:  W. W. Norton.

Leader, D., Appignanesi, R. & Groves, J. (2005).  Introducing Lacan: A graphic guide. London:  Icon Books.